How to use Plumb

One card per symbol. The numbers are computed. This page is the legend for the form, the scores, and the plan.

On the desk

1Type a symbolAAPL is already filled in. Use the ticker, not the company name. Or upload a PNG or JPEG of a chart.
2Leave “Scan all” on, unless you already know the styleScan all scores scalp, day trade, momentum, and big move, then builds the plan for the best one that is allowed to trade. Use Long or Short when you already know the side. Short builds the plan to the downside.
3Set account size and risk per tradeThese stay in this browser. They only turn the stop distance into a share count. They are not sent with the analysis.
4Press AnalyzeThe card is meant to be readable in about ten seconds: four scores, a bias, then entry, stop, and targets.
5Open “Why these scores” only if you want the mathEvery factor is a number computed from the tape, with a sentence saying what that number was. Missing data is labeled unavailable. It is not filled in.
6Paper the plan if you want to see the resultOn an accepted plan, choose 2, 4, or 6 hours. Paper follows that entry, stop, and T1 and shows what the path would have paid. It is not an order. Dollars use the risk settings on this device.

What to read first

Four scores. Scalp, day trade, momentum, and big move. The bordered pill is the style the plan follows. Best is the one Plumb prefers.
Bias. Long, short, or neutral, with a confidence word. Then the entry zone, stop, T1, T2, and reward to risk.
Share line. Only appears when the plan is accepted and you entered an account and a risk percent. Change those two fields and the share count updates. The stored analysis does not.
The rest. Tape numbers, risk flags, catalysts, the sentiment note, your image marks if you uploaded one, the factor list, and a chart with the same levels drawn on it.

Questions

Is this a recommendation to buy or sell?

No. Plumb is a calculator for a setup. Every card says the data may be delayed and that this is analytical information, not financial advice. It does not place orders.

Why do Scalp and Day trade say Not suitable?

Those two styles only run while the cash session is open and the quote is under 60 seconds old. A free feed is often late, and a closed market fails that test on purpose. They also refuse a name under $1, average daily volume under 500,000 shares, relative volume under 3× (scalp) or 2× (day), a scalp spread wider than 0.05% of price, or less than $5 million traded in the last 30 minutes. Momentum and big move still score from the daily tape.

The score looks high, but it still says Not suitable. Why?

Hard filters run first. If one fails, the style is Not suitable no matter what the 0–100 number is. The reason is printed under that style in “Why these scores.”

Why is there no entry, or no share count?

A plan is dropped if the bias is neutral, if there is no clean level beyond the price, or if the first target pays less than 2:1 against the stop. Share count also needs an account size and a risk percent. If the stop is so close that one share would risk more than that percent, the card says so instead of rounding up.

What does Paper do?

It pretends you placed the card’s order and then watches the next 2, 4, or 6 hours of 1-minute bars. A pullback fills if price trades to the entry. A breakout fills if price trades through it. If the quote is under 90 seconds old, it can fill immediately. Otherwise it waits for new prints, so a closed market does not pretend to fill. The stop before T1 is a loss. T1 before the stop exits the whole trade there. If one minute hits both, the result stays unclear. No fill by the end of the window means no result. Still open at the end is marked at the last price. The R result is saved. The dollar amount is calculated here from your account size and risk per trade, and that dollar amount is not stored.

Does the model choose the entry and the stop?

No. Prices, indicators, scores, and levels are computed in code from market data. The model only reads a ticker and timeframe off a screenshot, summarizes news and posts, and writes the plain-English note. Lines you drew are shown under “Marked on your image” and are never used as the entry or the stop.

My screenshot was unsure. What happens?

If the ticker or the timeframe is missing, or confidence is under 70%, Plumb stops and asks you to confirm both. Nothing is priced from the picture.

A number says unavailable, or a source failed. Is that a bug?

No. If a feed does not answer, that field stays blank and the related factor says unavailable. Plumb does not invent a float, a spread, or a mention count.

Is the price live?

The card stamps the quote time and when the data was fetched. The default feed is free and often delayed. Treat a scalp or a day trade as unusable until that stamp is fresh.

What is the list, and what is Record?

Add to list keeps up to eight symbols on this device. Scan list scores them without the news and X summary, so it is faster. Record stores each desk run. Grade open plans later to see whether T1 or the stop printed first. Weights are not changed until that page has a real sample.

Glossary

Short definitions for the words on the card. Risk per trade is the one that changes the share count.

On the form

Symbol: The ticker, such as AAPL. Plumb looks up a stock or an ETF, then pulls price, volume, news, and fundamentals for that symbol.
Scan all: Score every style, then plan the best one that passed its filters. Pick Scalp, Day, Momentum, or Big move if you only want that plan.
Account size: The dollars you type so a share count can be calculated. It lives in this browser only. It is not stored with the analysis.
Risk per trade: The percent of the account you are willing to lose if the stop is hit. It is not a forecast, and it does not send an order. Dollars at risk equal account times that percent. Shares equal those dollars divided by the distance from entry to stop, rounded down. Example: a $25,000 account at 0.5% risks $125. If the stop is $1 away, the card suggests 125 shares. If the stop is $2 away, it suggests 62 shares. A wider stop means fewer shares, so the dollar risk stays the same.
News and X summary: A short written note from recent headlines and posts. Turn it off for a faster run. The note does not change the scores. Counts that do feed a score, such as StockTwits bullish and bearish labels, are computed separately.

The four styles

Scalp: A very short trade. It needs the market open, a quote under 60 seconds old, relative volume of at least 3×, a spread under 0.05% of price, and at least $5 million traded in the last 30 minutes.
Day trade: A trade meant to be done the same session. It needs the market open, a quote under 60 seconds old, and relative volume of at least 2×. It leans on the opening range, VWAP, and the 9 and 20 exponential moving averages.
Momentum: A multi-day trend. It can still score when the cash session is closed, because it does not require a 60-second quote.
Big move: A larger swing that weighs a squeeze, a catalyst, options flow, and sentiment more heavily. If trend, options, and sentiment disagree, the card can say a move is likely but the direction is unclear.
Score: A number from 0 to 100 for that style. 75–100 is Strong setup, 60–74 is Tradable, 40–59 is Watch only, and below 40 is Pass. Not suitable means a hard filter failed, whatever the number.
Best: The style Plumb would plan first: the highest score among styles that passed their filters. If none passed, it is simply the highest score.
Bias: Long, short, or neutral, from how the style’s signals line up. Neutral gets no trade plan.
Confidence: How much those signals agree. High means they point the same way. Low means they are split or thin. It is not a promise the trade works.
Hard filter: A pass or fail check that runs before the score matters. Fail it and the style is Not suitable, with the reason written out.

The plan

Entry zone: Nearby reference prices that sit close enough to count as one area, within a quarter of ATR. Strength is how many levels landed there: prior day, VWAP, a moving average, a pivot, and so on.
Entry: For a long, a pullback into support, or a breakout through it. For a short, a rejection at resistance, or a break down through it. The price is taken from the strongest zone in the bias direction, not from a line on your screenshot.
Stop: The price that cancels the idea. It sits just past the far side of the entry zone, or one ATR away, whichever is tighter while still beyond that structure.
T1 and T2: The next zone beyond the current price, then the zone after that. T1 is the first target. If T1 does not pay at least 2:1 versus the stop, the whole plan is rejected.
Reward / risk: How many times the stop distance you would make if T1 is hit. 2.00R means two dollars of target for each dollar risked to the stop. Shown as a number of R, not as dollars.
Shares: The size that risks your chosen percent if the stop is hit. See Risk per trade. It is a suggestion on the card, not an order.
Paper trade: A pretend fill of an accepted plan, followed for a few hours on the Paper page. It shows what that entry, stop, and T1 would have paid, in R. It does not send an order and it does not store your account size.
Invalidation: One sentence that says what price action cancels the idea, usually a trade through the stop and out of the entry zone.

The tape

RVOL: Relative volume. Today’s pace versus a typical day. 2.00x means about twice the usual volume.
Spread: The gap between bid and ask, as a percent of price. A wide spread makes a short trade expensive. When the market is closed, this is the closed book, not a live scalp quote.
ATR: Average true range. A typical day’s high-to-low distance. Stops and zone width are measured in ATR so a $20 stock and a $300 stock are not treated the same.
30m $: Dollars traded in the last 30 minutes. A scalp wants at least $5 million.
Gap: How far price sits from the prior close, as a percent. A plus sign means higher than that close.
Float: Shares available to trade, not locked up by insiders. A smaller float can move faster on the same volume.
Short: Short interest as a percent of the float: shares borrowed and sold, still not bought back. Days to cover is that position divided by typical daily volume. Neither number is a price change.
ADV: Average daily volume, in shares. Names under 500,000 shares a day are filtered out.
VWAP: Volume-weighted average price for the session. Day-trade bias treats price above it as a long lean and price below it as a short lean.
Opening range: The high and low of the first 5 minutes and the first 15 minutes of the regular session. A day-trade bias looks at whether price has left that range.
Catalysts: The next earnings date, counted in trading days, plus headlines from the last 72 hours. An earnings date inside two sessions is flagged. The headlines are links, not a score by themselves.
Sentiment: The written note, plus counted StockTwits labels in the sample. A mention spike versus your own past runs is used only after at least three saved samples. Until then the baseline is still building.
Quote time: When the last trade in the feed actually printed, and when Plumb fetched it. Scalp and day trade refuse a quote older than 60 seconds.

Analytical information, not financial advice. Plumb does not know your situation, and a high score is not a reason to take a trade.